The Violent Years (1956)

18 Jan – 26 Jan

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Cult feminist rockabilly musical

NSWWest Australian Premiere

The year is 1956. Paula is an affluent teenage girl who leads a double life. By day she is a straight-A student, but by night she is criminal gang-leader with a flagrant disregard for upstanding moral values. Paula and her gang of teenage girls do the unthinkable: they drive fast cars, they dress like boys, they live for the thrill of crime…and they sing! Using an Ed Wood-penned exploitation classic and mashing it up with 2018 sensibilities, The Violent Years (1956) is a queer cult cinema garage rock concert you won’t soon forget.

With song and dance numbers blending 1950s rockabilly with 2018 indie art rock, The Violent Years (1956) is a smorgasbord of exploitation film plot tropes, dark comedy, camp, and rockabilly music to explore gender panic, self-destruction, and the hunger for anarchy.